Peru's Great Urban Experiment
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In other circumstances, a caste system might be seen in a less favourable light:
> I like the egg myth because it suggests that the Chimú understood that social and political inequality is ‘baked in’ to humanity from the beginning,” says anthropologist Robyn Cutright of Centre College.
Similarly the discussion of preferring other people's children for child sacrifices. This is ascribed to their support desire for cultural diversity and laying new cultural roots. > “The Chimú had the ability to draw on a large terrain, and I think they were reaching out to diverse regions to find children for the sacrifices” > By sacrificing the children and burying them, they were, in a way, planting new ancestors.”
I hope the original archeologists have not been quoted out of context or that I have not misinterpreted them.
Either way it is quite amusing. I do not think I would regard child sacrifices in entirely the same positive light or even neutrally ...
It's a lost civilization that existed for 500 years. The language is extinct. Archeologists are still puzzling some things out. There's little or no written records about them.
Most importantly, it had a strict code 'what happens in Chan Chan stays in Chan Chan'
A strange statement and I'm not sure I understand the meaning.
Such a myth serves the same purpose pretty much everywhere since a long time ago: to try to convince people of lower status that there is no hope for them to become high status. Perhaps it also shows some self-deception among the high status people.
It shows no profound understanding of anything; it's just a manipulative tactic.
And I'm not even sure what the speaker is trying to say. If it's that humanity is collectively unequal, well, duh, it always has been. If it's that an individual's status is predetermined at birth, then that's simply false.
It's about not hearing any news from the country ever and maybe not knowing a single distinguishing thing about it because they never come up in regular life in the western world.
Like Cameroon, Gabon or Suriname. I know they are countries, but couldn't tell you a single fact about them.
If you watch any kind of global sports like the Olympics or football (not american), you immediately hear about these countries.
And if you live in Europe you also know a lot about Suriname if you're in the Netherlands or about Cameroon if you're in France, and by extension if you interact with people from there. Maybe they don't come up for a regular American.
But still, I couldn't name you a single fact about any of those countries past the fact that they have a name and they are a country.
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I don't think you're wrong about coverage though. People are downvoting because they they think you're saying this is a good thing, but the fact is that no major media outlet regularly features stories from the non-BRICS developing world.
On the other hand, the United States is invisible to nobody. There is nobody on earth with even a basic education who is not aware of the political entities of the US and China. People with no connection to the US, no relatives, no history, are aware of the US.
The average Norwegian or Vietnamese person knows the internal politics of the US, and may, if lucky, know that Cameroon exists.
This is not the same relationship. I'm not saying the imbalance is good, but it is reality.
I wouldn't call you invisible, and I do not like to think of myself as invisible, even though neither of us are (I presume) household names in every country on earth.
(That said, it genuinely surprised me that there are people on HN who have not heard of Peru, as I would have thought Machu Picchu at least was a very well known thing in the developed world.)